Tightly packed within the books
pages is something new in the Graphic Novel format. In varied styles,
Cameron demonstrates the forms versatility. Graphic
novels are storyboards, he says, theyre movies
on paper.

Almost a century ago, the Gilmore
Hotel was a landmark for luxurious living at Nye Beach in Newport,
a small town on the Central Oregon Coast. By the 1960s, the hotel
provided low-cost housing for fishing and service workers, and retirees.
These are their storiesfrom the Gilmore Hotels last
daystold by one of its residents in the style of a graphic
novel, with real and surreal texts and cartoons.